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[–] Big_Boss_77 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is dumb as hell... if I wanted AI to read a book poorly to me, I'd just use screen reading accessibility features.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Are there any good ones nowadays that don't sound like a robot?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure there are. ElevenLabs is one. You can probably tell they’re not human but they’re really decent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just tried it. Still a machine buy much better than default TTS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

In 10 years it’s probably gonna be really impressive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Speechify is probably the best option for this particular usecase.